Benchmark Results: Crysis And Fallout 3
We didn’t include the previous SBM machine in today’s charts for several reasons, mainly because the new system’s graphics cards weren’t available when we ordered the previous system. We’ll still comment on current system progress whenever a particular benchmark result stands out.
Our first standout comes in Crysis. While our current two-card CrossFire Radeon HD 5870 system provides better performance at most settings, it suffers at 2560x1600 in a way not seen in the previous machine’s 3-way CrossFire Radeon HD 4890s.
Fallout 3 runs super-smooth on the current SBM machine, though the relatively flat performance curve does make it appear somewhat CPU-bound.
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Hello ionut19! You probably just did the same thing as me and, like me, got redirected to the .uk site where the comments section is currently empty?
Something strikes me as a little weird on that system. Don't know what it is. Dunno, for a budget of $2,500 I would've thought you could've gotten a bit more.
GPB equivalent from Overclockers UK: £1,709.85
Matching budget I did a X58 version for £1,703.87:
i7 920
Asus P6T SE
6GB Corsair XMS3 1600MHz CAS8
2x Sapphire 5870
2x SpinPoint F3 1TB
Cogage True Spirit
Corsair HX850
LG BH08LS20 BD-RE
Antec 902
which is pretty much the same system to be honest. £75 exchanged the SpinPoint RAID for 1 SpinPoint F3 and a Samsung PB22-J 64GB SSD. Dropping the Blu-Ray burner to the equivalent LG Blu-Ray ROM would bring the system back under budget.
Maybe it's because just because I personally favour X58 over P55.
Something strikes me as a little weird on that system. Don't know what it is. Dunno, for a budget of $2,500 I would've thought you could've gotten a bit more.GPB equivalent from Overclockers UK: £1,709.85Matching budget I did a X58 version for £1,703.87:i7 920Asus P6T SE6GB Corsair XMS3 1600MHz CAS82x Sapphire 58702x SpinPoint F3 1TBCogage True SpiritCorsair HX850LG BH08LS20 BD-REAntec 902which is pretty much the same system to be honest. £75 exchanged the SpinPoint RAID for 1 SpinPoint F3 and a Samsung PB22-J 64GB SSD. Dropping the Blu-Ray burner to the equivalent LG Blu-Ray ROM would bring the system back under budget.Maybe it's because just because I personally favour X58 over P55.
So did the builder, but the P55 was used anyway in hopes of a better overclock on the newer CPU. That didn't work out. But anyway...the RAM was good RAM, for a good price, and it ran at over 1600 CAS 8 anyway. Now if that same cost-savings eye would have been put into a few other places, perhaps X58 and a big enough liquid cooler to chase that big overclock could have been purchased.
big enough liquid cooler to chase that big overclock could have been purchased.
That Cogage will easily cool the i7 920 up to 4GHz on its own, past that you'd need a good chip to exceed 4.2GHz anyway. And a better motherboard too perhaps.
That Cogage will easily cool the i7 920 up to 4GHz on its own, past that you'd need a good chip to exceed 4.2GHz anyway. And a better motherboard too perhaps.
Well, the i7-860 in the review would go to around 4.4 GHz on a huge air cooler with super-fast fans, but those weren't included in the purchase and were only used in diagnosing the O/C problems. You can get a 920 to 4.20 on a 2x120mm radiator.
So I read the "uncompromising compromise" conclusion page ( http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/buil [...] 8-16.html# ) and it seems like a lot of the build changes.
Using the original build as a basis, and the improvements that were suggested on the compromises page, what should I fit? If I bumped my budget up to $2750, would that help?
Any advice would be appreciated!
This should be called the "more money than sense" system.
This should be called the "more money than sense" system.
Hardly. This is about standard for a high-end gaming system.
More money than sense would have 3 5870s, Core i7 975 OC'ed to 4.2GHz, 12GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000MHz, 3 Intel 64GB Extreme SSDs in RAID 0 for system and water cool the lot.